Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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crap

/kɹæp/ noun, verb, adjective, interjection

Also a form of crappy craps

Forms craps crapping crapped crapper crappest crappy

  1. noun (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
  2. noun (slang, mildly vulgar, chiefly uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk. “The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.”
  3. noun (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Nonsense; something untrue. “The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.”
  4. noun (slang, mildly vulgar) Feces. “I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.”
  5. noun (slang, mildly vulgar, countable) An act of defecation. “I have to take a crap.”
  6. verb (mildly vulgar, slang, intransitive) To defecate. “That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.”
  7. verb (mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To defecate in or on (clothing etc.). “He almost crapped his pants from fright.”
  8. verb (India, mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To bullshit. “Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.”
  9. adjective (colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of poor quality. “I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.”
  10. interjection (slang, mildly vulgar) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay. “Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!”
  11. noun (gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.

Synonyms

poop poo dump crud shit. Note: often used as a less vulgar synonym for or minced form of shit in all its senses defecate bullshit cruddy lousy mid second-rate shoddy ass bad base below par bottom-shelf BTEC dirt shit shite turd bull Irish bull horseshit dogshit stool take a shit

Etymology

From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.

From crab's eyes.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “crap”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details